An Appreciation Poem for True Abundance in Life

Sincere gratitude generates more to be grateful for. This appreciation poem is a kind of ode to the transformations we go through that lead us through our suffering to a deeper experience of being alive, to abundant life.

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune in to.” ― Wayne Dyer

True abundance isn’t found in having more, but in looking deeper into the experience of our life experiences. Not more, but deeper. Abundant living can happen regardless of how much or little we have in terms of material things. The form isn’t the point; the life underneath the form is the point.

How do we live the depth of life? Ultimately, through presence and appreciation, which tend to go hand-in-hand. Trusting in life a little more frees us to be present, and to enjoy the process with more ease, because this–here, now–is where we’re meant to be.

Presence is how we touch the depth of aliveness. When we give something attention, whatever it may be, a gratefulness comes with that, an aliveness: that’s abundance. Ultimately, we’re getting in touch with that which is beyond form.

What I’m saying is that there are endless forms of life, but a deeper life underneath all forms, breathing it all. There’s a vast freedom that comes with understanding that.

Nothing can replace the kind of freedom that presence and appreciation give.

Through appreciation, we become instruments of peace, because we understand what it feels like to be peaceful, at ease with life. With gratitude for the experience of being alive, we’re capable of transforming tragedies, even, into portals for peace to come through.

By going to the depths of darkness, we’re offered another view of life. It’s often when we’ve hit “rock bottom” or suffered tremendously in some way that we can turn and see the light like we’ve never seen it before. We get to live life like we’ve never done before; we get in touch with another dimension of aliveness.

This is an element of abundance: seeing things in a new light, with a different perspective, and living another way.

Instead of continually looking at all the things I don’t like or don’t have, and giving those attention, I wrote this appreciation poem in honor of what I do have and want. This poem is about living abundantly in the present moment, focusing on the beauty inherent in all things and the possibility that comes with every challenge.

We don’t need to think the thought “I am grateful” every time something good, bad, or otherwise happens. Gratefulness comes with attention; it’s how we interact with the world, with what happens and with all the forms life takes.

Use this appreciation poem as a tool to generate gratefulness for what you have, and for what’s yet to come into your life. Your appreciation allows what you do want to crystallize, and makes what you have come more alive.

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